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Super Meat Boy vastly outperformed one "biz guy" who would "make up numbers" and pulled the plug on its marketing
By Joshua Brown
Added Mar 05, 2026
Turns out a marketing team genuinely believed that Super Meat Boy, an iconic platformer, would sell below the sequel to a pinball game.
This article was curated from external sources. Originally reported by PCGAMESN, summarized by Gamers Unchained. All trademarks belong to their respective owners.
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Super Meat Boy
Released: 2010-11-30
Super Meat Boy is a tough as nails platformer where you play as a boy without skin who needs to save his girlfriend made of bandages from an evil fetus in a jar wearing a top hat and a monocle.
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